Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1887-04-27
HIsTORY OFTHE WEEK.

HISTORY 4 WEEK.
Adispatch from Annapolis, Md, on
the Goth, says: Lieutenant John w. Dan
enhower, the well known Artic explorer,
was discovered at 10 o'clock this morning
dead in his quarters at the naval academy,
with a bullet hole in his right temple. He
was found lying IN his rug in front Of his
fireplace, with a tag tied to his b%utton-hole
saying, "Send to my brother at Washing
tom Although he has had mental troubles
since he returned from the Arctic regions,
what Immediately led to the suicide is
thought to nave been the recent grounding
of the Constellation on its way to Norfolk,
which he had charge of, and for which he
had q fear of being court-martialed. Fur
thermore he was very intimate with young
Robert w. Gatewood who recently commit.
ted suicide on the Carolina, and whom be
saw in death. 1t is supposed that this death
suggested the mode to him. His wife, form
erly Miss Sloan, of New York, is away with
children. He was about 37years old and an
intelligent and polished officer.
Little Rock, Ark, Special, Apr. 22-
About 8 o'clock this morning a tornado
originating in the Indian Territory and
moving almost due east passed through the
country four miles north and along the line
of the Little Rock & TT. Smith railroad. 1t
was between q quarter and a half mile wide
and near Ozark, Franklin county, began
doing great damage to trees, houses and
fences. Farther east, near Coal Fill and
GAINESVILLE, johnson county, the damage
was very serious, and many persons were
injured. -Four miles from Clarksville, this
afternoon, J. Turner, John Reeds child,
G:k. Rowley's daughter, and a child of
Mr.. Petty were killed. A man named
Phillips, near Ozark, was seriously injured
by falling timbers. The loss to the farmers
on buildings, fences, stock and growing
crops is very heavy, but it cannot now be
estimated.
At Morris, ILL.,, on the 10th, the trial
of the brakemen, Henry Schwartz and New
ton Watt, forthe murder of Express Messen-
ger kellogg Nichols, came to an end. The
case was given to the jury at p. m. A re-
After being out five hours and ten minutes
the jury were ready with a verdict. The
Judge, taking the verdict, read aloud the
words pronOuncing Watt aud Swartz guilty
of the murder, and sentencing them to inn
prisonment in the penitentiary for life. The
verdict was received by the prisoners with
~AS ~ ANoA W SAO Va - - A0Vs ~ "a III
is pending for a new trial. The motion will,
doubtless, be overruled. Then notice
will be given of An appeal and, in all
probability, a stay Of proceedings and a
hearing in the upper courts willfollow.
E. M. Herrick, president of the Pa
cifc Lumber Company, and E. c. VIII
turing Association, of San Francisco, have
telegraphed the Interstate Commerce
Commission as follows: "Our two
corporations, employing 5000 to 10000 men
and about$3 100000 capital, have addressed
you by mail stating hat our Eastern bust
GRAFTON of the law, and asking your inter-
position 0 N our behalf. Meanwhile will you
allow the roads over which we have been
operating to give old rates and so revive
our business with the East provided the
rate is open and available to all.
Since Gov. Hill vetoed the Crosby
high license bill, chiefly on the ground that
a it Tas aRgR 1deR52g. only to New New York PR;
has been introduced in The New
York legislature of general scope. 1t di-
vides all saloons into two classes, the first
class comprising places where all kinds of
liquor are sold and the second where malt
liquors, wines and cider only are sold: The
rates established are New York and Brook
lyn,a frst-class, $780,; second class, $50.
Buffalo, frst-class, $500; second class $780,.
All other portions OF the state, frst-class,
$50, second class, $50.
One of the effects of the Inter State
commerce law is a Lake Shore order, re-
Gently promulgated, directing conductors
not to honor Lake Shore certificates of
stock for a passage IN the annual election
May i. From time immemorial Lake
Shore stockholders have enjoyed the
special privilege of travelling free upon
usually taken advantage Of the opportunity.
The Interstate law as interpreted, how
ever, is no respecter of persons, and this
year at least they must forego their free
transportation. 20. ,-
At Sissonville, West Virginia, on the
21st, Benjamin Sisson, a young married
man, chopped his wife to death with a
fuence of whisky, and upon his young wife
~reproaching him for drinking he seized a
Ratchet and dealt her a blow in
the breast. The woman fell, and Sisson
dealt her several additional blows on the
head, body and arms, inficting frightful
woman soon died.
An which a year ago would have
been considered Of startling Importance
happened in Chicago a few days ago. The
formidable organization which filled the
history of Chicago for 1886 with terror and
excitement drew it's last breath and was
buried. The anarchistic groups of the
International Working Peoples a~ssocia-
ton voted to disband. This was lone
because, as it claimed, there were spies in
their midst whose object was to incite them
to crime. y. . ! III. go g
A Monitor special from Prescott,
Linn Co., Kansas, reports a terrible cyclone,
on Thursday evening April2 az, at about 6 80
o'clock. There were II killed at different
points throughout the county and an in
%calculable amount of damage was done to
all kinds of property, Prescott was literally
wiped out of existence, not a single build
ing being left standing to mark the site of a
once prosperous and thriving village.
Norfolk, Va, was visited with a
cyclone on the 10Th. It's track was about
100 yards wide. The house of John Wright.
six miles north OF Suffolk, was completely
demolished. Mr.. Wright and his wife and
young sister and James Luke were in the
house at the time. Mrs. Wright and Mr..
Luke were killed, the young girl fatally
injured. and Mr.. Wright seriously hurt.